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apushatayid
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I dont think anyone agrees or disagrees over the potential pitfalls one can sink into via the internet. Those pitfalls have always existed, for both men and women. The internet has provided for much easier access and more importantly, it removes a level of “busha” due to the anonymity it provides. I dont think it is a good idea for anyone to be the sole keeper of internet access. Everyone needs a shomer, some might require two or three and others may need help not to relapse. Either way, in any household, like everything else that goes on in the household, both the husband and wife, mother and father have to agree on a course of action, agree on the plan to execute that course of action and then work together to execute that plan. In my home, the PC has user profiles set up for the various family members. Each user profile is allowed specific access to specific applications. No user has access to the browsers installed as it is password protected. Depending on the browser (we have IE, Safari and Chrome installed) half a password is controlled by me, my wife and 2 of my older children. Some combination of any 4 of us is required to open a browser (the application is password protected) and go online, this way, nobody in the family can get online without the knowledge of at least one other family member.

How this was set up is due to a techie friend who knows how to do these things, I have no clue. On top of the password protection, I have K9 and Malwarebytes that logs all visited sites (with K9 blocking sites we dont want and Malwarebytes looking to block specific types of sites). Both K9 and Malwarebytes are available free.